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July 31, 2018 1:08 p.m. ET Cash is expensive and pretty much everybody understands why. It gets lost or stolen and it has to be counted, transported, and stored. Less physically notable is the tremendous cost of credit-card swipe fees, which dwarf the expenses of cash: Americans pay $97 billion a year in card-processing fees,…

NEW YORK — Federal authorities are hoping for help catching a man from Schuylkill County who they say made threats against President Donald Trump. US Marshals, the FBI and the Secret Service want to find Shawn Christy from McAdoo. Authorities say Christy made online threats against the President and police as well as the district…

A man accused of threatening to kill Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and his family members by dismembering them with an ax has been arrested. Paul addressed the threats against him and his family in a Monday tweet, thanking the U.S. Capitol Police for promptly arresting the man: Thank you to the US Capitol Police for…

Markara Man of Norwalk, California was arrested Friday after admitting to investigators he threatened to kill the family of Federal Communication Commission Chairman (FCC) Ajit Pai. Pai reportedly received three emails from Markara Man, who was furious over the agency’s repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules. “One of the emails, sent Dec. 20, to Pai’s government and personal…

Prosecutors have charged a California man with threatening to kill Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s family, allegedly over the regulator’s repeal of net neutrality rules. Details: Markara Man, 33, was arrested Friday in Los Angeles, according to the Eastern District of Virginia, and was charged with threatening the family of a federal official. Man…

The European Union has called on U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to stop threatening it with tariffs on steel and aluminum, saying Thursday it is prepared to discuss new trade incentives. In March, Trump slapped tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on imported aluminum, but granted the 28 EU countries a…